![]() We deplore the central role most Pennsylvania congressional Republicans, especially Rep. Trump must face a reckoning - so, too, the rioters and especially the craven congressional enablers, whose deference and cynical leveraging of this presidency and the lies and hate that feed it, made Wednesday's outrages possible. Americans resolve their differences through the democratic process. Those who seek reform, in Pennsylvania, for instance, to implement consistent mail-in voting procedures, should be able to agree that mob violence to overturn a fair, certified election is no way forward. Supreme Court, have vetted the challenges and rejected them. State officials, scores of judges, including conservative Republicans and the GOP-dominated U.S. The truth bears repeating: There is no evidence of widespread fraud affecting the election. And certainly not all who rallied Wednesday in Washington stormed the Capitol building.ĭisinformation ranks as one of the gravest threats to our way of life. We know there are many in our readership who stand with the president, his policies, grievances and outlook. On Thursday, he pledged to support a peaceful transition. Only time will tell, given his inveterate compulsion to double back and down again to his base native impulses. Not in states across this country.Īfter initially resisting the summoning of the National Guard and repeating his false claims about a stolen election, Trump finally told the rioters to go home. Had more weapons made their way into the building, the American carnage Trump evoked at his inauguration would have been realized. ![]() Trump’s delusions provoked temporary but terrifying disruption Wednesday of a high democratic sacrament: the counting of Electoral College votes, essential to the peaceful transfer of power that makes our self-rule possible. In addition, with each resignation from his Cabinet and staff, the nation grows ever more exposed and vulnerable to our enemies. Departing Cabinet members and other staffers have told us this plainly for years. We did not need these events to telegraph the president’s unfitness and lack of fidelity to the office he holds. If this violence persists, Trump's Cabinet, Vice President Mike Pence and Congress must stand ready at a moment’s notice to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment or impeachment, for which there are ample grounds. Only days remain in the Trump presidency, each one laden with potential for more violence, shame and erosion of truth and the American way. ![]() Police recovered bombs planted at the DNC and RNC headquarters and a cooler filled with Molotov cocktails near the Capitol. Lawmakers in the House and Senate, some wearing provisional gas masks, cowered on the floor before being escorted to safety and before the hooligans overran the floors of the House and Senate, where a man ascended the dais and declared Trump the victor. More than a dozen Washington, D.C., police officers suffered injuries in the protest by the so-called party of law and order. Four people died, including a woman shot in the halls of the Capitol. ![]()
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